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Link Sharing: 7/29/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:16:06 +0000

TwitArcs: Website that compiles tweets and draws arcs between common words.
Twitter in USAToday: More mainstream awareness can’t hurt, unfortunately Twitter was down on Monday.
Awesome Balloon Sculptures: Tons of balloons used to create giant undersea life, organs, or insect-like creatures.
Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried: Online advertising doom, gloom, credit crunch, falling home prices, yeah — was that an earthquake?
Starbucks: Devastated Latte Lovers Want To Save The Evil Corporation: You know how every “how to save money” list advises “eliminate the latte”? Now that it’s frugal-time, you bet sales are down at Char-bucks. I personally don’t mind; there are too damned many where we live. Reality check: Starbucks is an evil corporation, getting us additcted to a brown liquid that at $4 a latte, is more expensive than gasoline. And we complain about gas prices? Time to research alternative fuels, indeed!
The Japanese iPhone Is Different: Yep Japan is a strange and wonderful place.
Very pointless new Microsoft thingie: Note to nerds: desks aren’t shaped like globes for practical reasons. Giant round ball that you touch is a terrible idea.
List of problems with Cuil: 1) No idea how to pronounce it. 2) No idea how to spell it, hence lowering odds I’ll ever remember the URL. 3) First I saw of it: people labelling it “FAIL” on FriendFeed and Twitter. 4) Tried it. Results sucked. 5) Saying you’re “taking on Google” is just asking for a smackdown. Conclusion: Will not use Cuil again out of sheer annoyance.
She And Him: Pondering — if She and Him fought The Bird and The Bee, who would win?
New Apple Product = Complaints Regarding Cosmetics: Not sure if this is a big deal or not, but pics are surfacing of tiny cracks in the iPhone 3G plastic body — much more noticeable on the white 16 GB model. While I feel for these folks, Apple cosmetic issues are nothing new.
The FriendFeed 250: Yeah, these leaderboards and stats are getting really old.
The iPhone 3G: The Honest Review. In agreement with pretty much everything here.
Warning: Carriers See 3G As A Golden Goose: I’m already signed up to bend over for better performance.
I’m Quitting Bitchmeme And Going Carrier Pigeon Only: MG criticizes Calacanis’ eschewing of blogging for an email list.

Link Sharing: 7/12/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:26:21 +0000

Human-Looking Pieces of Nature: Rocks, landscapes, stuff on other planets that resemble us.
How I Started Taming My Workaholic Tendencies: Penelope Trunk’s blog is supposed to be about career management, but at times turns into a soap opera. This post is the latter.
2008 Air Guitar Championship: Pics. Videos. Shred Begley Jr. ones are the best.
Men Who Look Like Zach Braff: Okay…
Is The Internet Destroying Real World Interactions? Too many toys…
Battlestar Galactica TV Movies In The Pipeline: Excited for this.
The Lamp Oil Looked Like Apple Juice: Sigh.
FailPhone: Had to be done.
The Jerry Yang Picture Worth 1000 Words: Self-explanatory.
Iran: You Suck At Photoshop: Recent missile photograph was Photoshopped. The internets shows how it’s done.
Kevin Rose’s Latest Romance: Interesting for the use of Twitter as a papparazzi / stalking tool.
Boy Cries Wolf on FriendFeed. Angry Mob Grab Pitchforks: Someone blurted that Mahalo would be bought by Microsoft. Untrue.
Jason Calacanis Quits Blogging.
Jason’s Long Goodbye: Give Me A Break: Mathew Ingram’s analysis.

And one awesome video:

Link Sharing: 6/21/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:50:13 +0000

The Must-Have Kitchen Appliance That Will Help You Save Money And Eat Healthier: It’s a rice cooker, which I’d vouch for as essential, too.

Facebook, It’s Over Between Us: Another blogger gives up on Facebook.

Review: The Happening: Me going to see this M. Knight Shyamalan movie? Not happening.

The $499 Ethernet Cable: Just bought a Trek bike for $499. Yeah, that’s a way better deal.

Pepsi Blue Hawaii: It’s a Pepsi with hints of pineapple and lemon. Where’s the coconut?

Louis Gray’s Twins Have Arrived: Matthew and Sarah, welcome to the world. The birth was essentially broadcast through FriendFeed. Congrats!

New ReadWriteWeb Bloggers: Frederic Lardinois and Corvida: Frederic is the author of The Last Podcast and Corvida writes SheGeeks. Congrats!

MagCloud: DIY magazine publishing.

Link Sharing: 6/3/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:12:37 +0000

Social Media Is Timely, Get Over It: Alexander van Elsas encourages us tech bloggers to step out of the constant info-flow and relax. Related: There is always something new on Techmeme.

How To Watch Hulu Videos If You Live Outside The US: Lots of amusing content on Hulu, including full movies and classic Battlestar Galactica.

Web 2.0: A Philosophy Of Elitism And Technological Divide: Something to think about — especially how us tech nerds are drooling over “mobile computing” with the new iPhone, yet in order to take advantage of this you need a fair amount of clams to buy the phone and pay the monthly phone bill. A lot of technology we take for granted (latest computer, WiFi and routers in the home, broadband access) aren’t ubiquitious or affordable for everyone.

Lessons Learned From A Hard Drive Failure: Another friendly reminder — back up your stuff.

Tag Galaxy: Inefficient but amusing Flash interface for browsing Flickr photos.

Windows 7 Video: So Windows 7 has multitouch. Apple is surely pleased, because surely Apple will introduce a better version in OS X earlier. If Microsoft really wants to get a leg up, they need to innovate something other than what Apple is surely already working on.

Comcast Hijackers Say They Warned the Company First: Hilarious account of why the hackers hacked Comcast — “Comcast is just a huge corporation, and we wanted to take them out, and we did.”

Wikipedia 3.0: You Can Now Edit Any Page On Mahalo: Mahalo keeps churning along, keying in on what web searchers are looking for — reliable information.

The Dreams Of Doctor Who And Star Trek Fans Vs. The Realities Of Their Lives: Very interesting data-porn for sci-fi fans.

Unhealthy Drinks Exposed: Damn you, Vitamin Water.

Indiana Jones Sequel? Do not want.

Link Sharing: 5/17/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:29:52 +0000

Unethical But Legal $10,000 Per Month AdSense Strategy: If money’s what you’re after, quit blogging and start setting up pointless websites.

WordPress Spamming Its Own Bloggers: WordPress may be inserting ads into blogs hosted there.

Meet Crissy, The High Priestess of Coupon Clippers: One great thing about a slowing economy is more mainstream articles like this one, about extreme thrift.

Are Social Sites Like Digg Even Useful Anymore? Eric checks out the top stories on Digg, Reddit, Techmeme, and Memorandum. I’d say Digg and Reddit have shifted from “useful” to “entertaining”.

Win Some Indiana Jones Related Stuff At Screen Rant: Yep the new movie is coming out really soon. I hope it doesn’t suck.

Nirvana In Bloom Unmixed: Tunequest finds a cool Nirvana documentary where producer Butch Vig talks about the making of the song In Bloom. I think we’re at the point (nearly two decades years later) where Nirvana is unquestionably a band for the ages. After all, that’s why they are in Rock Band and mentioned in Definitely Maybe.

Managing Robert Scoble: A tip along the lines of Driving Miss Daisy, Meet Joe Black, and Desperately Seeking Susan. Kidding.

Search the Web From the Dock: Quick Mac Tip. Highlight text, drag it to Safari in the Dock, and Safari will launch and run a Google Search on the text.

The End Of The Internet Is At Hand: Steven introduces us to LOLscobles and the world is changed forever — for the worse.

Link Sharing: 5/4/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:15:51 +0000

How I Reviewed 300 Bad Movies And Earned $900 This fellow found a loophole in the Web 2.0 site Helium and got user-generated content to work for him. Some of his reviewed titles are hilariously obscure.

Apple Basic Interpreter in JavaScript I had a great time futzing around with this. I wrote some really simplistic Choose Your Own Adventure type games in Apple Basic way back when.

Study Says Near Extinction Threatened Humanity 70,000 Years Ago And I thought Battlestar Galactica was science fiction.

Aggregation Obsession Is aggregation innovation?

Video Speed Test: 2.5G iPhone vs. Mock 3G iPhone Yeah, 3G is faster.

My Little Town Is Growing Up Steve Hodson mentions his small Canada town is getting fair trade coffee and WiFi. Pretty cool how bloggers are based all over the place.

X Files I Want To Believe Pictures From the upcoming movie.

How To Make Your WordPress Site Beautiful for iPhone or Ipod Touch Cool plug in with sample screenshots.

Get Ready: Oil May Hit $10 A Gallon In Just A Couple Of Years Bye bye SUV.

Is Technology A Crutch? I’d agree.

Captain Capitalism On Why Saving Is Bad For America Big sarcasm tags around this one.

Link Sharing: 4/25/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:33:49 +0000

Been a while since I did a “link sharing” post so here goes.

What Have You Done For You Lately? Engtech mixes up his routine and gets high on life.

Managing Information Overload This “life hack” works really well; more should try it.

Gross Stuff Found In Vitamin Water If you drink flavored water to cut down on soda, this article will get you to cut down on the flavored water, too.

What Happens If The Real World Bites Twitter On The Ass? Cool technology and tons of users is only part of the puzzle — don’t forget ego politics, burn rate, and monetization (or lack thererof).

Who’s Going To Say The “P” Word? “P” meaning portal. I foresee a day where my portal is Google, and I’ll just import my FriendFeed and Twitter feeds there.

25 Seriously Twisted Trees: From Uncanny Urban Overgrowth To Awesome Arbosculpture I just like the word “arbosculpture.”

Maybe Higher Food Prices Are Really Good For Us As A Society Forcing people to appreciate what they have (not waste food), plus go on a diet. I love how recessions guide people toward common sense.

Ning Raises $60 Million For “Nuclear Winter” Does he know something we don’t? Ants and grasshoppers?

Link Sharing: 3/27/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:30:24 +0000

Nubrella: The Hands Free Umbrella. I just wonder if the protection from the rain is worth looking like a complete weirdo in public.

It’s FriendFeed Week: FriendFeed releases an API. Engtech writes super-useful FriendFeed greasemonkey scripts. Steven Hodson loves it. What? You’re not on FriendFeed? Your Web 2.0 site doesn’t have a freaking API? Get with the program!

Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests is looking for guest bloggers.

24% of Users Can’t Find Google: Just shoot me now.

Restaurants Substitute Cheaper Ingredients: Reduce eating out proportionately. You can make gourmet meals at home with stuff from the 99 cent store.

Obama Wants Will Smith to Play Him in a Film. I’d watch this, but only if Meryl Streep could have a go at Hilary.

Alan Greenspan Loses His Mind: Well, seems many people were insane these last few years.

Bacon Bowls: Must be seen to be believed.

What’s Wrong With The Blogosphere Part 1: First target: Techmeme. I look forward to subsequent parts.

Secret Museum on the Moon’s Surface: Includes a Warhol and Rauschenberg.

Running Adsense? You Need to Display a Privacy Policy: It’s in the contract.

I have no idea.

I really have no idea.

Link Sharing: 2/27/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:03:18 +0000

Video: History Of Evil. Note the brush stroke and how it moves from left to right while marching forward in time.

Australia Dairy Company in Hong Kong: Supposedly the best scrambled eggs ever, in China. The dish is scrambled eggs between two slices of fluffy white bread.

Parabolic Display: Now you can have eight monitors (two rows of four screens apiece). You will be eight times the nerd of before.

Bank of America Won’t Let You Access Your Money: Guy tries to buy a $5870 TV at Best Buy with a debit card. It’s revealed there is a daily limit of $5000.

Wondercon: Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles Panel: I was there, but wondered why nobody mentioned Lena Headey.

Terminator 4 in 2009: Yes, more Terminator movies, without Arnold and supposedly no connection to the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show. I’m skeptical, but Christian Bale will play John Connor.

Paris Lemon’s Top Ten Films of 2007: I suck as I’ve only seen two of these. But the rest are being added to my Netflix queue post haste.

Plants on Twitter: If you haven’t signed up for Twitter yet, you’re even less of an early adopter than certain plants. Get with the program!

Apple TV DRM: Again, calls for more research. Supposedly Apple TV requires a newer TV and an HDMI cable that will support HDCP (I never heard of this) or the rentals won’t play. The user was refunded their rental fee, showing that while Apple continues to sneak this DRM in there, they’re not totally heartless.

Link Sharing: 2/21/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:33 +0000

Yet another installment of Link Sharing. I’ll try to add more commentary from here on out.

Serious Eats: Where to Find Macarons: I never really heard of macarons until I read this article. I guess all this time I’ve been eating the American version: The Oreo. There are some shops in San Francisco so perhaps I’ll indulge my culinary curiosity.

Bornrich: Armchair Paradise, Music Therapy in a Shell: A sequel to the Prisoner ball chair from last week, or maybe this person is being eaten by Marvin the Robot.

Wisebread: Longtime Mac Users Punished for Loyalty: This requires some further investigation, but supposedly the latest generation of iPods require an OS over 10.4.8 which means most likely, upgrading to Leopard. There are still a fair amount of older Macs out there that can’t run Leopard — you need a G4 at least 867 MHz or faster.

Angry Journalist: Check out this site to read senseless rants, like screams of trapped knights within a castle as teeming barbarian hordes storm the walls.

What Techno Addiction Really Means: Insight on wasting too much time on the Internets. I consider one symptom to be “suffers from withdrawal” meaning, if the power goes out or the network goes down, do you freak out and pace aimlessly until you the issue is resolved? If so, seek professional help.

Homespun Honolulu: Hawaii’s Votes Really Do Matter: Pretty neat pictures of huge voting lines in the recent Hawaii Democratic Primary. I grew up in Hawaii (so did Obama).

Link Sharing: 2/16/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:02:03 +0000

The Ball Chair Gets Speakers: This is the same style chair that was in The Prisoner.
Videos: Cutting of Fugu: Fugu is a poisonous puffer fish, that if improperly cleaned, will be sashimi that kills you. Your life is literally in the chef’s hands.
Potential Terminators: Casting for the next Terminator movie.
The Largest Diamond in the Galaxy
Enthused Donors and Volunteers Crash Obama’s Servers
Americans Struggle with the Concept of Spending Less Than They Earn
Monster Cables, Monster Ripoff
Shatner Never Watched Star Trek
Could the Interruption Economy Sack Prosperity?
Indiana Jones: The Scripts that Weren’t
Raccoon Takes Cat’s Food
Is Six Figures Really Worth That Much?

Webomatica Update, Link Sharing 2/7/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:52:04 +0000

The blog was down all day Tuesday due to server issues which was annoying. I wasn’t terribly freaked out because I’ve been doing regular backups. However, I am considering moving everything to a different hosting company. I put out a call via Twitter and got some recommendations which I’m looking into, further. Any other suggestions, I’m all ears.

But I’m still thinking about it — I can’t move immediately as I have to figure out how to get all my bottle cap stuff out of Joomla. The second wrinkle is I might get some credits from my current host to cover the downtime. Since I’ve already prepaid for a whole year, I suppose if my hosting ends up being much cheaper as a result of this, I may just stay due to inertia.

Back to the usual link sharing stuff:

Link Sharing: 1/31/08, Webomatica Update

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:47:57 +0000

January was another great month for traffic: 50K uniques. If I ever pass 100K I’ll buy all the top commentators for that month, a pizza.

Top Commentators:

Dave: Mr. Fanpop and Castro citizen
JC: Apple expert and pre-early adopter
MG Siegler: Tech happenings guru
Slammerworm: James Bond expert
Engtech: Expert geek blogger and cat fanatic

Top Posts for January:

Hot Links:

Link Sharing: 1/24/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:03:34 +0000

Five Interview Lessons Learned From Horrible Interviews.

10 Diets You Probably Want To Avoid.

Just Return BSG To iTunes.

Many Of Us Don’t Believe You.

Tips For Joining A Startup.

Seriously Nerdy Furniture.

Same Mouse, Different Platforms = Different Package Design.

Link Sharing: 1/17/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:19:03 +0000

Managing the Presumed Awesomeness of Working at Home.

Journalist? You Should Have A Blog, If Only To Show Passion.

Add More Green To This Map.

Digg: Your Privacy Is An Illusion.

Cringely Belives Apple Will Buy Adobe.

Should He Stay Or Should He Go?

Shopping Trip Postponed For A While.

Chinese Ant Farm Scam.

Thoughts On Apple’s Brain Drain.

I’m Sorry To Read This.

Cat Costumes.

People Care More About Status Than Money.

Scoble’s New Job.

The Real Reason Why Apple’s Getting Into Video.

Link Sharing: 1/10/08

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:32:52 +0000

Those kids use them cellphones a ton.

Literally a die-hard iPhone user.

DIY Star Wars.

Confessions of a Trader Joe’s junkie.

JazzMutant releases something that resembles what Apple may or may not be releasing.

A Cloverfield party and you’re invited.

Fast and easy pizza dough and sauce.

Cherry picking movie reviews to get what you really want.

40+ social websites you can use to promote your blog — or get social.

Video of the week: David Lynch doesn’t recommend watching movies on the iPhone (submitted by Sang)

Link Sharing: 1/4/08: TV Links, Movie Sequels, Belt Tightening

Jason Kaneshiro — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:42:28 +0000

TV Links resurrected by a clone site.

Terminator 4 plot details revealed.

Indy 4 pics with a griping Lucas.

Preparing for a recession.

Interactive Flash physics.

Collective effort restores David Airey.com.

More on that HD DVD / Blu Ray format war.

Car loans next. Then I’m guessing credit cards.

New Year’s Resolution? I need to drop 10 pounds. Gee, that was one of my goals for last year…

Link Sharing: 12/19/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:48:49 +0000

A mysterious site to waste time on.

if (cheap == $store) {do not want}

This is true.

if (this.gift == iCrap){do not want}

DIY projectors.

The Other Fake Steve.

Crushed Nuts.

Scoble muses on recession.

Starcraft Origami.

Your old crap = today’s treasure.

How to spot a Cylon.

Shoemoney thinks digg has jumped the shark.

Injected pork water.

Abandoned wonders of the world.

Link Sharing: 12/6/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:59:16 +0000

Ginormous Mac Store.

Exactly What I Was Looking For: All Past Reddit Logos.

Inflation.

Get It While You Still Can.

Good Gift For The Cat Obsessed.

52 Ways To Speed Up OS X.

Reasons To Rent.

Reason To Buy (The gov will bail you out).

Or Maybe Leave The State.

When Do We Move To Pay Per Action?

It Was Yelp Day.

Maybe We Should Just Get Rid Of The Voting Thing And Let Google Decide.

Do I Now Have A Collector’s Item T-Shirt?

Update Your Bad Behavior.

It Ain’t Open Until I Can Use An iPhone On Verizon.

Webomatica November Update, Link Sharing

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:45:44 +0000

This has been a bumpy month for this blog, as my posting lagged due to holiday business and I took a few days after Thanksgiving off. The blog also rendered itself inaccessable twice. I’m also off coffee and diet soda which leaves my brain foggy and numb. Still, Webomatica managed to pass 40K uniques which is the second highest amount of traffic “evar.” The most was back in February where I had a front page Digg and made it up to 44K, and I’m looking forward to breaking 44K without any Digg activity, at this rate, early next year.

However, with a more cynical analysis, I’m 99% sure the vast majority of this traffic is spammers, bots, or some other nefarious activity — especially considering the number of comments and subscribers — I think the number of regular readers is below a hundred. I’m certain the vast majority of the 40K is useless traffic or people who visit once through Google, never to return again.

But I’m not really complaining, since I’m still just doing this for fun — as long as I can cover hosting costs and not be called a moron by the rest of the blogosphere on a weekly basis — I shall persevere.

But anyhow, the top commetators for November were:

Dave of Fanpop
Slammerworm (leaves some really insightful comments on the James Bond movies)
MG Sigler (ParisLemon and Galacticaphile)
JC (The real fake Steve Jobs)
Ross (Over 50 kabillion Mac users helped)

Next month I’ll do a more substantial year-end review of this blog’s stats over this second year of blogging, and what has worked and what hasn’t. It has definitely been amusing to say the least.

Here are some fun links for you to enjoy as suffer from caffeine withdrawal:

Link Sharing 11/21/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:13:19 +0000

For the next few days, due to the Thanksgiving holiday, who knows when I’ll post next. But as usual, I have some “stuff in the queue” for the week following. In the meantime, enjoy these links.

Who Can Help Me Understand This.

What Is This Cat Doing.

Why These Movies Must Never Be Made.

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure?

Time For A Blogosphere Vacation.

Apple Porn, Or: How Low Can You Go For Traffic?

Digg’s Election ’08 Page: Can You Say Ron Paul.

Link Sharing: 11/15/07 — Comics, Cats, Dieting, Gas

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:26:23 +0000

Webomatica Stats:

What I Read Most In Google Reader: Valleywag, Consumerist, Boing Boing, Neatorama, Firedoglake
Total Webomatica Spam Comments Obliterated: about 64,000
Technorati Rank: 27,484 :: 209 blogs linking in :: “B” list blogger
Blog Worth Evaluator: $116,859.78
My Weight: 171
Bottle caps at Bottle Cap-O-Rama: 1,733
Members at MyBlogLog: 165
Twitter Followers:78

Link Sharing: 11/9/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:29:32 +0000

A bit of a format change. Plans are in the works to get this process a bit more automated.

Star Trek Laser Phaser: One way to increase Blu-Ray adoption.
Honolulu’s Mass Transit Rail: Picture of what it might look like. Personally, I think this is overdue.
Want to tweak your Leopard Dock?
The only way I’d say thanks for giving me a cold.
Brutalized by food in suburbia: I’m also scared of “BJs”.
The Crunchies: I need that meh t-shirt. Would be better as a band along the lines of The Archies or The Carrie Nations.
Like I said, I want the meh t-shirt, not this.
Not that I blog as a career, but if I did…

I haven’t done the humbling Webomatica stats thing in a while, so here goes:

Embarrassing Google Reader Trends Top 5: Valleywag, Consumerist, Boing Boing, Neatorama, Firedoglake
Total Webomatica Spam Comments Obliterated: about 63,510
Technorati Rank: 27,484 :: 207 blogs linking in :: “B” list blogger (this has fallen significantly)
Blog Worth Evaluator: $116,859.78 (also fallen)
My Weight: 171
Bottle caps at Bottle Cap-O-Rama: 1,708
Members at MyBlogLog: 164
Twitter Followers: 69

Link Sharing: 10/31/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:39:23 +0000

Been a bit busier than normal over the past few weeks, so the blogging lapsed a bit. Apologies. But here’s another installment of what I’ve found amusing out there on the Internets, plus an update of the past month Webomatica-wise.

Top October Commentators:

Ever-present and dedicated Dave of Fanpop (16)
Mysterious Slammerworm, James Bond fan (11)
Urbanist (7)
DaveD (6)
Steven Hodson (Mr. WinExtra) (5)

Traffic: Effectively tied last month with 36K uniques.

Regularly Scheduled Link Sharing:

Google cracks $700, Apple is near $200, but oil nears $95, gold hits $800, and the US dollar is on a race to the bottom. So it seems the big loser is the American consumer that can’t afford any of the first four items.
Ross at Simplehelp decides BlogRush ain’t worth it.
This is possibly the strangest thing I’ve read in a while.
Proof that Google is evil. This isn’t really a problem anymore as the stock just cracked $700.
Which of Microsoft’s Vista justifications are justified.
Google’s OpenSocial sounds cool, but just consider the privacy implications.

Link Sharing: 10/20/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:14:29 +0000

Web 3.0?

Steve Rubel: Five Reasons Why A Pay Per Click Recession Looms

Credit Card Companies Raising Rates — Because They Can

Tim O’Reilly: Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard: It could be that when the “widsom of the crowds” starts giving us obvious information (echo chamber) then its usefulness is questionable, and the participants become “stupider”.

Vending machine disguise in Japan: Uh… Crazy.

Money Money Money: Is Wall Street Killing America?

The Latte Era Grinds Down: Getting back to basics — it’s about freaking time.

Engtech: How I Use Google Reader

The Attention Economy: Is It Too Much?

How To Monitor Your Mac Laptop’s Battery Health: I have to get a new battery.

iPhone Fingers: Wear these, and you immediately negate the cool factor of owning an iPhone.

TV Links Shut Down

Link Sharing 10/4/07, September Summary

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:46:40 +0000

This past month, the top commentators were:

Dave (Mr. Fanpop)
Ross (Mr. Simplehelp)
Urbanist (Mr. Web Urbanist)
Steven Hodson (Mr. WinExtra)
Engtech (Mr. Internet Duct Tape)

Spam increased to an absolutely annoying level. Seems like more are leaking through Akismet, or I’ve wound up on someone’s not-so-nice list.

Traffic slightly was up a bit from September — closing in on 40K uniques. Although, I’m thinking a large portion of it is spammers.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3. It was uneventful except for a few plug-ins that didn’t work — easily fixed with a plug-in upgrade.

And now back to the regularly-scheduled episode of link sharing.

Turn GMail or any email account into a social networking hub.

Kicking Ass for the Working Class.

…Facebook Isn’t MySpace.

TechMeme Leaderboard. Yawn.

Link Sharing, 9/19/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:02:42 +0000

Yet another installment of the Webomatica Link-O-Rama:

Unfaithful Online, But Not: Someone should snag the film rights for this one.

Adobe CS3 Not Fully Tested With Leopard: I bet the Adobe Updater will break first.

Cup Shaped, Slimy Fries At Applebees: Not intentional.

9 Ways To Secure Your WordPress Blog: A partial cure for Blog Paranoia.

An Open Letter To Kevin Rose (Digg): Hoping for digg._alpha = 50.

Retrolounge: Waste some time looking at old ads.

Total Webomatica Spam Comments Obliterated: about 48,000
Technorati Rank: 15,606 :: 272 blogs linking in :: “B” list blogger
Blog Worth Evaluator: $110,085.30
Number of Times I Thought About Giving Up On Blogging In The Past Few Weeks: 0
Rude Comments Aimed In My General Direction: 0
My Weight (Fatblogging): 169
Bottle caps at Bottle Cap-O-Rama: 1,691
Members at MyBlogLog: 158

Link Sharing 8/31/07, August Top Commentators

Jason Kaneshiro — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:41:44 +0000

Because I installed the top commentators plug in to reset monthly, I think each month I’ll mention the visitors that commented most, for what it’s worth. This is something I’ve noticed other blogs do, namely the Generation X Finance blog which I recently discovered and have been enjoying. So here are the top commentators for August:

Dave: A longtime friend of mine who is a founder of Fanpop. I think he got into the bad movie contests.
Steven Hodson: Writes the excellent technology blog WinExtra.
Ross: Writes the excellent Mac software blog Simplehelp.
Sang: Another old pal who pops in here every once in a while.
Engtech: Writes the excellent tech tips blog Internet Duct Tape. Has a cat. You know I don’t know the cat’s name.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming:

Abandoned Urban Places: This is just kinda cool. Would be fun to be a kid exploring these places with a bunch of pals.

Zune Phone Parody: My thoughts exactly.

Cringley Suggests The Next Killer App: Interesting thoughts on huge-o Apple displays.

Vegetarian Burger Fast Food: I’ll have to try this place if one opens in San Francisco.

Don’t Trade Your Life For Tech: Via Chuqui. Good advice.

3 Step Success Plan: I’m stuck on step one.

Total Webomatica Spam Comments Obliterated: about 40,015
Technorati Rank: 14,212 :: 295 blogs linking in :: “B” list blogger (Doldrums)
Blog Worth Evaluator: $166,539.30 (Hey it went up!)
Number of Times I Thought About Giving Up On Blogging In The Past Few Weeks: 0
Rude Comments Aimed In My General Direction: 0
My Weight (Fatblogging): 169
Bottle caps at Bottle Cap-O-Rama: 1,685
Members at MyBlogLog: 156

Link Sharing: 8/23/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:30:19 +0000

Finnish cover of YMCA: My wife is half Finnish so this is particularly amusing.

Top Ten Suggestions For New Bloggers: By WinExtra. Great list.

What Problogger Thinks About Scoble’s Hiatus: Good notes on avoiding fatigue.

Writing Gripping Content: Good ideas for getting beyond link bait.

Google Puts And End To Fancy Link Schemes: All those “link trains” may not help you any.

Total Webomatica Spam Comments Obliterated: about 35,000
Technorati Rank: 13,220 :: 313 blogs linking in :: “B” list blogger (Doldrums)
Blog Worth Evaluator: $110,085.30 (I lost 60K!)
Number of Times I Thought About Giving Up On Blogging In The Past Few Weeks: 0
Rude Comments Aimed In My General Direction:0
My Weight (Fatblogging): 168
Bottle caps at Bottle Cap-O-Rama: 1,685
Members at MyBlogLog: 155

[tags]Link Sharing, Humor[/tags]

Link Sharing: 8/16/07

Jason Kaneshiro — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:48:48 +0000

California Pizza Guy Wins Prize In Italy: How about the Indian pizza next…

Some Quick Tips On Using Digg From A Top Digger

Dead Blogger Sketch: I found this hilarious.

Tony Hung Interview at Conversation Agent: I still wonder how he finds the time for everything he does.

Yacht Rock: I didn’t post a link to this before.

Check Your PageRank: You know you want to.

SimpleHelp’s Long List Of Lessons Learned From 1 Year Of Blogging

The Shocking Truth: People Still Use IE: Engtech voices frustration at using IE to subscribe to feeds.

Total Webomatica Spam Comments Obliterated: about 35,000
Technorati Rank: 12,881 :: 324 blogs linking in :: “B” list blogger (Doldrums)
Blog Worth Evaluator: $110,085.30 (I lost 60K!)
Number of Times I Thought About Giving Up On Blogging In The Past Few Weeks: 0
Rude Comments Aimed In My General Direction: 1
My Weight (Fatblogging): 168
Bottle caps at Bottle Cap-O-Rama: 1,685
Members at MyBlogLog: 152